Home is where the art is
This year's French May - the annual festival of French art and culture in Hong Kong - features a number of French artists who have put down roots in the host city. Gennady Oreshkin reports.
Love island
An example of such cultural confluence is Anchor et encore, an exhibition that is more on the lines of an experience, with artist chaussette b. leading viewers through her studio in Cheung Chau. "The aesthetic of this exhibition refers to the maritime history of Hong Kong as well as the wooded pathways of Cheung Chau," says the artist.
Having lived on the island for 12 years, chaussette b. is convinced that the sights and sounds of Cheung Chau have seeped into her creative DNA. "The sand of the beautiful beach near my studio, the bamboo baskets with shrimps and small fish drying in the sun, the shuffling of flip-flops on the beach and the silhouette of Lantau's hills viewed from Cheung Chau" have shaped her artistic sensibility. Often objects found lying around on her neighborhood beach - scraps of fabric, discarded flowers, cables, and even receipts - end up in her artworks.
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